The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning

Margaret Malloch, Len Cairns, Karen Evans, Bridget N O′Connor, Margaret Malloch, Len Cairns, Karen Evans, Bridget N O′Connor

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781446270523, 9781847875891
• eBook ISBN: 9781446248416
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

This Handbook provides a state-of-the art overview of the field of workplace learning from a global perspective. The authors are all well-placed theoreticians, researchers, and practitioners in this burgeoning field, which cuts across higher education, vocational education and training, post-compulsory secondary schooling, and lifelong education. The volume provides a broad-based, yet incisive analysis of the range of theory, research, and practical developments in workplace learning.

The editors draw together the three essential areas of Theory; Research and Practice; and Issues and Futures in the field of Workplace Learning. In addition, final chapters include recommendations for further development.

Key researchers and writers in the field have approached workplaces as the base of learning about work, that is, work-based learning. There has also been emerging interest in variations of this idea such as learning about, through, and at work. Many of the theoretical discussions have centred on adult learning and some on learners managing their own learning, with emphasis on aspects such as communities of practice and self directed learning.

In Europe and Australia, early work in the field was often linked to the Vocational Education and Training (VET) traditions with concerns around skills, competencies and ?on the job? learning. The idea that learning and workplaces had more to do with real lifelong and lifewide aspects than traditional "training" regimens has emerged in the last decade. Since the mid 1990s, the field has grown world-wide as an area of theory, research, and practical work that has not only expanded the interest but has also legitimized the area as a field of study, reflection, and progress.

The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning draws together a wide range of views, theoretical dispositions, and assertions and provides a leading-edge presentation by key writers and researchers with insight into the field and its current state. It is a resource for researchers and academics interested in the scope and breadth of Workplace Learning..

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• General Introduction
• SECTION I - Theory
• 1 Theories of Work, Place and Learning: New Directions
• 2 Theories of Workplace Learning
• 3 Workplaces and Learning
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• 4 Workplace Learning and the Organization
• 5 Subjectivity, Self and Personal Agency in Learning Through and for Work
• 6 Learning in the Workplace: Communities of Practice and Beyond
• 7 Activity Theory and Learning at Work
• 8 Informal Learning at Work:Conditions, Processes and Logics
• 9 Towards a Meta-Theory of Learning and Performance
• 10 Knowledge and Workplace Learning
• 11 Rethinking Work-Based Learning: For Education Professionals and Professionals Who Educate
• SECTION II - Research and Practice
• 12 Researching Workplace Learning: An Overview and Critique
• 13 How Researching Learning at Work Can Lead to Tools for Enhancing Learning
• 14 Researching Workplace Learning in the United States
• 15 Researching Workplace Learning in Australia
• 16 Researching Workplace Learning in Europe
• 17 Initiatives in VET and Workplace Learning: A Korean Perspective
• 18 Age Management in Organisations in the EuropeanUnion
• 19 Work and Learning: From Schools to Workplaces
• 20 Competency-Based Training and Its Impact on Workplace Learning in Australia
• 21 Work-Related Learning in the United States: Past Practices, Paradigm Shifts, and Policies of Partnerships
• 22 Workplace Learning in East Africa: A Case Study
• 23 Policies for the Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Discourses at Play
• 24 Virtual Workplace Learning: Promises Met?
• 25 Seeing Workplace Learning through an Emotional Lens
• 26 Towards a Social Ecology of Adult Learning in and through the Workplace
• SECTION III - Issues and Futures
• 27 Beyond the Workplace: Learning in the Lifeplace
• 28 Workplace Learning in the Knowledge Economy: TheDevelopment of Vocational Practice and Social Capital
• 29 Workplace Learning and Higher Education
• 30 Identifying and Classifying Corporate Universities in the United States
• 31 Partnerships between and among Education and the Public and Private Sectors
• 32 Brave New Workplace:The Impact of Technology on Location and Job Structures
• 33 Technology and Knowledge Management
• 34 Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics, and Issues
• Index